Children Quotes
If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.
Herbert Spencer
We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.
George Washington
If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"
Daniel Quinn
Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.
Clayton Christensen
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
D. A. Carson
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
Edgar Allan Poe
On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.
William Howard Taft
My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.
Catherine Martin
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?
Caroline Norton
It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.
Michael Nyqvist
America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.
Janet Reno
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
George Gilder
